Congratulations to the 2017 WBC Teams Competition Winner: Team Tamper

It’s hard to believe we’re already two days into WBC Seoul! We’ve already seen 58 competitors in Round One, with our semi-finalists also being announced. Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 WBC Teams Competition: Team Tamper, which includes Canada, China, Italy, Kenya, and Romania.

Each competitor in the WBC was placed in a team based on historical performance data, with each competitor giving their own individual stage routines, while supporting and working with each other off-stage. After competing on the main stage, each team also had a designated shift on the Team Bar—working together to create a menu, decide on equipment to use, and how to structure their service.

This year, the semi-finals round of the WBC was expanded to include the top 15 finishers in the preliminaries, with a 16th wildcard semi-finalist position in the WBC awarded to the highest-ranked, not already qualified competitor from Team Tamper: Martin Shabaya from Kenya.

World Coffee Events

The World Barista Championship is managed and produced by World Coffee Events, an event management organization registered in Dublin, Ireland. WCE was originally founded in 2011 by the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe and the Specialty Coffee Association of America, which have since unified to become the Specialty Coffee Association.